Richard Wiebe

Ph.D., University of Arizona (Psychology), 1998
M.A., University of Arizona (Psychology), 1997
J.D., University of Buffalo, 1983
B.A., State University of New York Binghamton (Psychology), 1978

Crime & personality
Psychopathy
Self-control
Person-environment interactions
Adolescent risk behaviors
Future uncertainty
Child maltreatment

Genetic and environmental risk factors for low self-control
Self-narrative, self-identity, and college performance
Facilitating synergy: The heart of criminal justice

Journals

Wiebe, R. P., Griffin, A. M., Zheng, Y., & Harris, K. S., and Cleveland, H. H. (2018). Twelve steps, two factors: Coping strategies moderate the association between craving and daily 12-step use in a College Recovery Community. Substance Use & Misuse, 53, 114-127. 

Cleveland, H. H., Griffin, A. M., Wolf, P. S. A., Wiebe, R. P., Schlomer, G. L., Feinberg, M. E., Greenberg, M. T., Spoth, R. L., Redmond, C., & Vandenbergh, D. J. (2018). Transactions between substance use intervention, the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR), and peer substance use predicting youth alcohol use. Prevention Science, 19, 15-26. 

Cleveland, H. H., Schlomer, G. L., Vandenbergh, D. J., & Wiebe, R. P. (2016). Gene x intervention designs. Criminology & Public Policy, 15, 711-720. 

Cleveland, H. H., Wiebe, R. P., McGuire, J. K., & Zheng, Y. (2015). Predicting the drinking of minority adolescents from their exposure to White schoolmates: Differences and similarities among Hispanic, Black, and Asian adolescents. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 14, 166-186. 

Zheng, Y., Wiebe, R. P., Cleveland, H. H., Molenaar, P. C. M., & Harris, K. S. (2013). An idiographic examination of day-to-day patterns of substance use craving, negative affect and tobacco use among young adults in recovery. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 48, 241-266. 

Grahe, J. E., Reifman, A., Hermann, A., Walker, M., Oleson, K. C., Nario-Redmond, M., & Wiebe, R. P. (2012). Harnessing the undiscovered resource of student research projects. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 7, 600-602. 

Wiebe, R. P. (2012). Integrating criminology through adaptive strategy and life history theory. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 28, 346-365. 

Cleveland, H. H., & Wiebe, R. P. (2008). Understanding the progression from adolescent marijuana use to young adult serious drug use: Gateway effect or developmental trajectory? Development and Psychopathology, 20, 615-632. 

Caldwell, R., Wiebe, R. P., & Cleveland, H. H. (2006). The influence of future certainty and contextual factors on delinquent behavior and school adjustment among African American adolescents. Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 35, 591-602. 

Vazsonyi, A. T., Cleveland, H. H., & Wiebe, R. P. (2006). Does the relationship between impulsivity and delinquency vary by neighborhood disadvantage? Criminal Justice & Behavior, 33, 511-541. 

Wiebe, R. P. (2006). Using an expanded measure of self-control to predict delinquency. Psychology, Crime & Law, 12, 519-536. 

Cleveland, H. H. Wiebe, R. P., & Rowe, D. C. (2005). Sources of adolescent exposure to tobacco- and alcohol-using friends: A behavioral genetic evaluation. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 66, 153-170. Reprinted in K. M. Beaver & A. Walsh (Eds.), Biosocial theories of crime (pp. 253-271). New York: Routledge. 

Wiebe, R. P. (2004). Delinquent behavior and the Five-Factor Model: Hiding in the adaptive landscape? Individual Differences Research, 2, 38-62. Reprinted in Canter, D. (2014), Criminal Psychology. London: Sage. 

Wiebe, R. P. (2004). Expanding the model of human nature underlying the General Theory of Crime: Implications for the constructs of self-control and opportunity. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 37, 65-84. 

Wiebe, R. P. (2004). Psychopathy and sexual coercion: A Darwinian analysis. Counseling and Clinical Psychology Journal 1, 23-41. 

Wiebe, R. P. (2004). Book review essay: Biology and behavior. Criminal Justice Review, 29, 196-205. 

Cleveland, H. H., & Wiebe, R, P. (2003). The moderation of adolescent to peer similarity in tobacco and alcohol use by school levels of substance use. Child Development, 74, 279-291. 

Cleveland, H. H., & Wiebe, R. P. (2003). The moderation of genetic and shared environmental influences on adolescent drinking by levels of parental drinking. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 64, 182-194. 

Wiebe, R. P. (2003). Reconciling psychopathy and low self-control. Justice Quarterly, 20, 297-336. 

Cleveland, H. H., Wiebe, R. P., van den Oord, E, & Rowe, D. C. (2000). Behavior problems among children from different family structures: The influence of genetic self-selection. Child Development 71, 733-751. 

Book 

Cleveland, H.H., Harris, K. S., and Wiebe, R. P. (Eds.) (2010). Substance abuse recovery in college: Community supported abstinence. Cambridge, MA: Springer. 

Book Chapters 

Beaver, K. M., Vaughn, M. G., DeLisi, M., Wright, J. P., Wiebe, R. P., Cleveland, H. H., & Walsh, A. (2014). The heritability of common risk and protective factors to crime and delinquency. In M. DeLisi & K. M. Beaver (Eds.), Criminological theory: A life-course approach (2nd ed.) (pp. 99-114). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett.

 Wiebe, R. P. (2011). The nature and utility of low self-control. In K. M. Beaver & A. Walsh (Eds.), The Ashgate research companion to biosocial theories of crime (pp. 369-395). Farnham, UK: Ashgate. 

Cleveland, H. H., Wiebe, R. P., and Wiersma, J. D. (2010). How membership in the Collegiate Recovery Community maximizes social support for abstinence and reduces risk for relapse. In H. H. Cleveland, K. S. Harris, & R. P. Wiebe (Eds.), Substance abuse recovery in college: Community supported abstinence (pp. 97-111). Cambridge, MA: Springer. 

Russell, M., Cleveland, H. H., & Wiebe, R. P. (2010). Facilitating identity development in college recovery: An Eriksonian perspective. In H. H. Cleveland, K. S. Harris, & R. P. Wiebe (Eds.), Substance abuse recovery in college: Community supported abstinence (pp. 23-35). Cambridge, MA: Springer. 

Wiebe, R. P., Dean, L. R., & Cleveland, H. H. (2010). Maintaining abstinence in college: Temptations and tactics. In H. H. Cleveland, K. S. Harris, & R. P. Wiebe (Eds.), Substance abuse recovery in college: Community supported abstinence (pp. 57-75). Cambridge, MA: Springer. 

Wiebe, R. P., Cleveland, H. H., & Harris, K. S. (2010). The need for college recovery services. In H. H. Cleveland, K. S. Harris, & R. P. Wiebe (Eds.), Substance abuse recovery in college: Community supported abstinence (pp. 1-8). Cambridge, MA: Springer. 

Wiebe, R. P. (2009). Psychopathy. In A. Walsh & K. M. Beaver (Eds.), Biosocial criminology: New directions in theory and research (pp. 225-242). New York: Routledge. 

Wiebe, R. P. (1996). The mental health implications of crime victims' rights. In B. D. Sales & D. W. Shuman (Eds.), Law, policy, and mental disorder.  (pp. 414-438). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole. Reprinted in: D. A. Wexler & B. Winick (1996), Law in a therapeutic key. (pp. 213-241). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

ASC - American Society of Criminology
SRCD - Society for Research in Child Development